The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking). — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surface with all… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life,… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order… — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement.. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image